Brewers Friend - adding hopstands

[Duncan Dobbin]

Hi. I'm a little confused as to how to add a hopstand to BF. If I choose hopstand currently, at 80 C it still seems to add large amounts of IBU's to the outcome? I was under the impression that adding at 80 and below will not extract any bitterness? If I change this to 'aroma' though, the IBU's drop to zero.
Which is the correct way to add an 80 C 15 min hopstand to the recipe generator please?
Cheers!

 

[Dutto]

I always consider hop additions below 80*C to be "IBU Zero" and add them as "Aroma".

I may be wrong of course!

 

[Brew_DD2]

It's a myth that you need to boil hops get bitterness. Just try chewing on a pellet to prove that.

 

[An Ankoù]

I recently removed a hop sock full of Citra which had been dry hopping my beer for 5 days. After squeezing the contents back into the beer, I went to have a taste of this "juice" to see how citra-y it was. It was as bitter as Theresa May's tears. So some bitterness is added, but I'm not sure how much difference that would make in 6 gallons.

 

[Leon103]

Adding at 80c will add some ibus. Try adding at 72c

 

[Brew_DD2]

Adding at 80c will add some ibus. Try adding at 72c

Even a dry hop will add bitterness even if the calculators don't record the IBUs for it.